2016-2017 Luce Scholar Mo Zia has co-authored a recent policy brief about Chinese coal investment in Indonesia through the Belt & Road Initiative, published by the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore.
Chinese companies are global leaders in coal-fired power plant technology and have the funds to invest in Indonesia’s coal-fired power sector in the framework of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). This policy brief reviews the current state of the China-Indonesia coal relationship and analyses the new phase of the relationship in the context of the BRI.